The Vermont watchman. [volume] (Montpelier, Vt.) 1883-1911, 1887-04-27
Weekly News Summary.
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THE Vermont party returned from Gettys-
burg battlefield Saturday evening.
LAKE CHAMPLAIN is now seven feet and
three inches above low-water mark
The Lake Dunmore House will open May
10. Mr.. w. III. Merritt is to manage it.
A TEMPERANCE camp-meeting will be held
at Spring Grove, New Haven, June to IL.
THE new railroad trestle in Hartford con-
tains 220,695 feet of timber and cost about
$1,000.
WILLIAM MINER of Williston was thrown
from wagon last Saturday and probably
fatally injured.
DEA. JACOB EsTEY and wife of Brattle-
bOro celebrated their fiftieth wedding ami
versary Tuesday.
SEVERAL Middlebury College students
have been arrested for making bonfire of
the college fence.
THE Vermont state Baptist Sunday-school
convention will be held with the church at
st. Adams June /.
The Rev. Mr.. Barrow, rector of the Epis-
copal church at Bennington, has sent in his
resignation, to take effect July 1.
WILLIAM II. FLINT of Brandon, postal
clerk on the night run from St. Adams to
Troy by way of Rutland, has resigned his
position.
UNITED STATES MARSHAL RoBINsoN has
and his headquarters will hereafter be at
Bennington.
GENERAL MANAGER HOBART went to
Florida because his health though i'm
proved, would not allow him to remain in
this climate.
PATRICK REYNOLDS of Brandon, who was
run over in the freight yard at Holyoke,
Mass, by the cars, died without regaining
consciousness.
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is to be known hereafter as the " Pearl
Street House." No cause is assigned for
the {" sad act"
ID. LEONARD, the well-known proprietor
of an extensive job-printing establishment
in Brattleboro, died Saturday of pneumonia,
aged fifty years.
A. j. NEWTON of Brandon died on re-
cent Friday. He had lost three wives, all
dying on Friday, and his brother and two
sons died on Friday
G.. l.. CLossoN, for the past ten years ac-
countant in Smiths bakery, White River
Junction, has been elected cashier of the
Springfield National Bank.
AT the Hygeia Hotel, Fortress Monroe,
which has had a thousand guests the past
season, the manager is a Vermont boy-Mr.
F. N Pike, formerly of Isle La Motto.
BENNINGTON is no longer in the hands of
the rummies." They have lost their
grip" and are fast moving out of town
and into adjoining towns in New York.
BUT few Vermonters will be included in
the New England colony which leaves for
Dakota Thursday. Some three hundred
families are said to be listed for the trip.
Wilson'S block at Bellows Falls, occupied
by G.. f. Capron, merchant tailor, Timothy
Sullivan, grocer, and A. r. Winnewisser.
furniture dealer, was destroyed by fire
April IS.
THE Passumpsic road has issued circu-
lar concerning family and business firm
mileage tickets. Five hundred miles are
sold at $3.50, 1000 miles at S25, 1900
miles at $40.
| THE following patents have been granted
to Vermonters: Isaiah G.. Little, Williams
town, veterinary lance Sherburne l.. Swa.
sey Newbury, combined watch-key and
chain-bar
A THROUGH freight-train on the st. Johns
bury & Lake Champlain road was thrown
from the track at Morrisville, April IS, and
three cars loaded with Fairbanks scales were
badly wrecked.
THE supreme court of Orange county
opens its next session May g. There are
twenty-nine cases on the printed docket
Judges Royce, Ross, Powers and Veazey
will hold the court
IRA II. ADAMS residence and the depot
at Chester were burgarized Friday night
About $500, a watch and chain were taken
at Adams but only small amount o.
change at the depot.
JUDGE w. C. DUNToN of Rutland will de
! liver the Memorial day address at Wey
bridge, Or. A. II. Chesmore of Huntington
at Richmond and g. II. Brown of Bellows
| Falls at Brattleboro
WORK on the Clarendon & Pittsford rail
road is being vigorously pushed on the sec
ton from Center to West Rutland, and it i.
expected that this part of it will be finished
inside of three months.
BISHOP BIssELL administered the rite o
confirmation to twenty persons at st
Lukes Episcopal church, st. Adams, las
week, including Rev. George S. Pratt, who
recently left the Baptist denomination.
JOHN w. Brown of Milton says that forty
years ago last week he drove in a horse anC
sleigh from North Hero to st. Adams Bay OF
the ice, and that year QS4) the steamboat:
commenced to run into st. Adams Bay May
10.-MeSSenger.
ID. CLINTON GooDING, a son of Rev. j. G
Gooding of Winooski, aged about tifteeI
years, disappeared from his home Friday
morning and nothing has been seen or hearC
of him since Temporary insanity is the
suspected cause.
A MAN by the name of John German, VIII,
had been repairing watches, clocks anC
jewelry at Winoosk the past week, suddenl,
| Cdllt up lulSSluR WIFI several VALUABLE dr Vi
cles in his possession, which he had neg
lected to return to their owners.
IT is announced that Barnum's great show
will visit Rutland August lst Burlington
August Sd and Bennington August 4th
and will come to Rutland " from Below
Falls way" Nothing is stated about it
visiting other large towns in the state.
GOVERNOR ORMsBEE and a number o
others commissioned by the Vermont legis
lature to select sites for the state monu
ments arrived at Gettysburg the 20th an,
visited portions of the battlefield. In tn,
evening they were serenaded at their hotel
THE Methodist Conference Reporter of st
Johnsbury says: 1.-THE workings of tn,
much-talked-of interstate commerce bill
are seen in the fact that several railroads il
the state, which have formerly granted thu
favor OF half-fare to all persons attending
conference, have this year withheld thu
privilege"
JUDGE TAFT has appointed Messrs. W. II
III. Bingham of Stowe, Stephen G. Shurtlef
of Montpelier and U. A. Woodbury. of Bur
lington to settle the question of the value o
the town hall property now pending be
tween the towns of Rutland, West Rutlan'
and Proctor.
Hon. JOHN MORTON DYER of West Sails
bury died April 49, in the sixtieth year o
his age. He had been prominent bushes
man in Addison county for thirty years
1859, go, 81 and 62. He was member o
the state senate in lS67-'6S. He leaves
wife and five children.
AMONG the Troy Conference appointment
are: Burlington, Homer Eaton; Willston
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